Monthly Archives: August 2006

Viral Marketing Evolves

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Viral marketing evolves further from the primordial mud: I first saw a thread, similar to this one, on my Warcraft realm forums. The thread is a chatty little bit about a Warcraft dating site, if you’re too lazy to click. Let’s say I saw this on Moonrunner, which I didn’t because I don’t play on Moonrunner so don’t look for me there. (Repeating: the answer is NOT Moonrunner.) Anyways … thinks me, “boy, that thread looks like a plant”, so I checked level 1 gnome Caseclosed’s post history, suspecting a viral marketer, however, the history looks pretty standard for yer average slack-jawed yokel. Hmmm. Searching back to page 3 of his history and earlier … the viral marketing is unmasked! (i.e. many, many duplicate posts chatting up the WoW dating site across many, many realms.) This joker made a bunch of “bla bla nerf this, buff my class” posts so that his history would stand up to a casual inspection. That had to take some effort. (Furl archives: Post history-page 1, Post history-page 3)

Ya, These Things Frost Me Too

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From the venerable Warcraft forums (“Questionable searchs for over two years”) comes a thread soliciting players’ game peeves, “In-Game Oddities That Raise Blood Pressures”. One of the thread author’s examples: “I get killed, I’m a ghost. A GHOST. Spirit form, without solid essence. Why, then, can I not walk through the simplest thing as a picket fence?” Clever, witty thread with many of the nuisances we’ve all endured in Azeroth. (Furl archive of thread)

Applying Minty Fresh Code

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**BLOG TERROR ALERT LEVEL: SEVERE LOW(ER)**
Severe risk of blog terror as code is upgraded to WordPress v2.04.
All Readers should continue to be vigilant, take notice of their surroundings,
and report suspicious blog activity to the local … whatever.

Notes to me: What in the hell is with the tag pages? No idea, but I intend to get to the bottom of it. (*shrug* updated permalinks and UTW config, works now — must be magic.)
Don’t forget bla bla backup, plugins, bla bla upgrade instructions, turn plugins back on, marvel that spammers got through during that 5-minute window, test navigation. (Done. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy)
Redo any updated plugins, test, bla bla, queue up for Warcraft’s Alterac Valley after patting self on back for a job well done. (Fuuuuuck, Bad Behavior and Extended Live Archives need to be upgraded, of which, ELA is ALWAYS a huge pain in the ass to redo. BBStats needed an upgrade too. DONE! Foton deserves a distilled reward.)

As usual, if you notice some funkiness that I missed, shoot me an email if you would please — Foton (at) afkgamer (dot) com.